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The Strange Case of Archbishop Nienstedt – Part One

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Nienstedt

By: Randy Engel

[The following is the first in a two-part series of articles that appeared in The Catholic Inquisitor, July and August 2018. In light of the recently published Viganò bombshell, the case of Archbishop John Nienstedt and the former nuncio’s involvement in it has been receiving increased scrutiny.

PLEASE NOTE: This article was written in late June 2018 – well before Archbishop Viganò’s testimony. I would caution readers to refrain from impugning Mrs. Engel’s stellar reputation for accuracy and fairness until she has an opportunity to respond in detail to Archbishop Viganò’s claim that he had no hand whatsoever in halting the Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis’ investigation into the Nienstedt affair. Mrs. Engel is preparing a response. I will publish her remarks on this specific matter next week.

Bear in mind: We are not facing an either or scenario as the defenders of the homosexual network would have us believe. Specifically, it simply does not follow that if indeed Nuncio Viganò attempted to help his old friend John Nienstedt, then his recent testimony concerning Ted McCarrick is therefore unbelievable. – Louie]

A Homosexual Cleric on the Fast Track

Introduction

Who can expect the flock to prosper when its shepherd has sunk so deep into the bowels of the devil … Who will make a mistress of a cleric, or a woman of a man? … Who, by his lust, will consign a son whom he spiritually begotten for God to slavery under the iron law of Satanic tyranny.

… a religious superior guilty of sodomy has not only committed a sacrilege with his spiritual son but has also violated the law of nature. Such a superior, damns not only his own soul but takes another with him. 

– Saint Peter Damian, Book of Gomorrah 1049 A.D.

More than 900 years ago, St. Peter Damian spoke out against the “the befouling cancer of sodomy,” not only as it pertained to crimes of pederasty by clergy against young boys, but also to the sexual seduction and moral pollution of young men preparing for the Sacrament of Holy Orders.

I’ve always thought it strange that the Vatican, while rightly condemning clerical sexual abuse against minors, has been strangely silent concerning the sexual abuse of seminarians and young priests and monks by their own bishops or religious superiors.

This brings us to the case in point — that of Archbishop John Clayton Nienstedt of the Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis, who was forced to resign from office in 2015 amid accusations of sexual misconduct with men. According to the Most Reverend Bernard A. Hebda, Nienstedt’s successor, the Archbishop Emeritus remains “in good-standing.” But “good-standing” with whom?

Richard Sipe on the Value of Rumors in Sex Crimes

Throughout this article, the reader will come upon indented texts written in a bold italicized font concerning allegations of sexual misconduct by Archbishop Nienstedt that cover a span of more than four decades. The origins of these texts vary. Some italicized texts were taken from sworn affidavits or given as sworn testimony in a court of law.  Some texts are based on “rumors” circulating in the diocesan chancery or within the “gay” community.

Lest the reader be tempted to dismiss the latter category of evidence as mere “gossip,” I am including in this introduction a commentary on the value of rumors, suspicions and complaints in dealing with sexual violations of minors and vulnerable adults, including young seminarians and religious, made by the well-known psychotherapist A. W. Richard Sipe in testimony given on April 12, 2004.

The following excerpts (emphasis added) are taken from the online presentation Sexual Abuse of Minors in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Tucson – An Overview of the System of Sexual Activity and Abuse Within the Clerical Culture of the Roman Catholic Church in the USA, Section 41.IV “There is Widespread Knowledge of Clergy Sexual Activity Through Suspicion/Rumor/Complaint/Report:”

  1. Sexual violations by their nature are difficult to substantiate because the actions are most commonly executed without a third-party observer. The means of determining the facts of an allegation or the truth of denial are usually derivative rather than direct.
  2. Rumors, hearsay, about abusing priests are common and a valid source of information and an important means of child protection if respected and adequately investigated.Rumors form a valid alert to danger and are frequently the most powerful indication to church officials of abuse. The source of these rumors often is grounded in the fact of abuse that can be shared by the victim only with one of his or her equally powerless friends or family members. … Knowledge by rumor can be widespread and has been available for investigation within the clerical community for decades.
  3. Bishops and superiors most frequently irresponsibly and negligently dismiss rumors without reasonable investigation. Bishops, many who also fear exposure of their own sexual activities, have continued to exclude themselves from oversight in the directives they instituted in 2002 to deal with the problem of abuse by priests and other church employees.

All of the italicized citations made in this series were taken from affidavits, depositions, and secret memorandums found in the Ramsey County Report and are available online at the official website Ramsey County, MN. [1]

The St. Paul Law Firm of Greene Espel conducted the first investigation into Archbishop Nienstedt’s alleged homosexual behaviors. The follow-up investigation was conducted by the law firm of Wold Morrison of Minneapolis. And the third overall investigation into the Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis and Archbishop Nienstedt was carried out by the Ramsey County Attorney Office (RCAO).

A Career on the Fast Track 

As even a very perfunctory reading of Nienstedt ‘s curriculum vitae will demonstrate, from his earliest years in both his home Archdiocese of Detroit and at the Vatican, he enjoyed powerful patronage and lived his priestly life on the fast track.

Nienstedt was born on March 18, 1947 in Detroit, Mich. He was the second of six children. His original family home was at Grosse Pointe Farms on Lake St. Clair. Later, his parents moved north to Harrison Township near Anchor Bay not far from Lake Huron where Nienstedt would spend much of his later years after leaving the Twin Cities area.

He attended Catholic grade school and high school in Grosse Pointe Farms and in 1969 he entered Sacred Heart Seminary in Detroit. In 1972, Archbishop, soon to be Cardinal, John Francis Dearden sent the handsome young Nienstedt to study in Rome at the Pontifical Gregorian University, where he earned his Bachelor of Sacred Theology. He also attended the Pontifical North American College where he was ordained deacon for the Detroit Archdiocese.

Nienstedt then returned to the States and served as deacon at Sacred Heart Parish in Dearborn from 1973 until his ordination at age 27 on July 27, 1974, again at Sacred Heart.

The Hinske Affair

Father Nienstedt’s first assignment was associate pastor at Guardian Angels Parish in Clawson. Here he reconnected to some close relatives from the Hinske family including Nienstedt’s first cousin, who was a former Dominican nun, and her son, Michael and daughter, Mary Beth.

When the newly ordained priest visited his cousin’s home for Sunday dinners he was often accompanied by clerical friends. On several occasions, Nienstedt brought with him Father Samuel Ritchey, a priest of the Columbus (Ohio) Diocese.

According to Nienstedt, he first met Father Samuel E. Ritchey at the Pontifical North American College in Rome when both were seminarians and they struck up a close friendship. During the summer months of 1974 and 1975, Ritchey, also newly ordained, studied at Mary Grove College in Detroit, and continued to visit the Hinske family with Nienstedt. He also developed a special interest in 16-year-old Michael Hinske.

Even afterNienstedt had returned to Rome to earn his Licentiate of Sacred Theology at the Pontifical Institute of St. Alphonsus, Ritchey continued to frequent the Hinske household.

One evening he and Michael went to a nearby Catholic retreat center. At some point the priest asked the teenager back to his room at the center and then turned off the lights.  Ritchey told the boy “I love you,” and started to undress the boy despite Michael’s opposition.  When Ritchey fumbled with his pants Michael told him, “I don’t want to do this,” but the priest proceeded to molest the teen anyway.

Before Michael returned home, he got up the courage to ask the Ritchey how many other kids the priest had done this to, and to his surprise the priest replied, “’I have several special friends that come from my parish.” And when he said that, Michael instantly knew he was not the first kid that Ritchey’s had molested.

That same night Michael told his parents that Father Ritchery had molested him. A few days later he confided the news to his sister. His mother wanted to tell Nienstedt, but her cousin was in Rome. Unfortunately, as a devout Catholic in the mid-1970s, there were no thoughts of causing “scandal” by reporting the sexual abuse to her pastor at Guardian Angels or to the police.

So, Michael and his family kept the abuse a secret until Nienstedt returned from Rome in January 1977.

When Nienstedt went to visit the Hinskes, he said Michael’s mother and sister told him that Father Ritchey “had said something inappropriate to her son and placed his hand on her son’s knee,” (not that Ritchey had sexually molested Michael). Nienstedt said he asked his cousin if she wanted him to talk with Michael and she replied her son did not want to talk with anyone about the incident. Both mother and daughter later said this was not true.

Shortly thereafter, Nienstedt said he contacted Ritchey and asked him if he had “propositioned” Michael. Ritchey denied everything.  Nienstedt said he took the matter “seriously,” but apparently not seriously enough to investigate the incident further or end his friendship with Ritchey. Nor did he ever personally discuss the abuse with Michael or report the abuse to the police or his own superiors, ostensibly because the family didn’t want to pursue any legal or ecclesial recourse.

As for Father Ritchey, he returned to his home diocese of Columbus where he continued to serve as a parish priest and high school teacher. He continued to rack up new young male victims until 2006, almost three decades later, when his criminal past caught up with him and the state removed his teaching credentials and the Church removed him from ministry.

Years later, when the Hinske incident came back to haunt him, Nienstedt would insist that he never suspected his bosom buddy Sam Ritchey “had such (pederast) proclivities.”

But this protestation falls flat given the fact that by the time of his nephew’s molestation, Nienstedt had already earned himself a reputation for being a flamboyant active homosexual, and that homosexuality was the bond that drew him and Ritchey together both in Rome and in the States.

Homosexuality No Impediment to Clerical Advancement

When he returned from Rome in 1977, Nienstedt became Administrative Secretary to Cardinal Dearden. Following the Second Vatican Council, the Archdiocese of Detroit had been drastically reconstructed, and authority decentralized.

And, as the young Nienstedt soon discovered, much to his relief, homosexuality was no impediment to his clerical career advancement in AmChurch, in general, and the Detroit Archdiocese, in particular.

As young priest in Detroit, Nienstedt was reported to frequent the “Happy Tap,” a homosexual bar and male strip club in Windsor, Canada, located across the river from Detroit.

Nienstedt was seen in a “gay” video store in Detroit.

That Nienstedt was “an active homosexual” during the early years of his priestly career was confirmed by the wife of an Archdiocesan official who had numerous connections to the Arts world in Detroit.

Also, Sister MF, a member of the Board of Directors of the University of St. Thomas claimed that Nienstedt lived a promiscuous “gay lifestyle” and frequented “gay” establishments across the border in Canada.

[Statements taken from “Confidential Memorandum of November 22, 2013 found in Ramsey County Report].

The Detroit Archdiocese with its six Suffragan dioceses of Gaylord, Lansing, Grand Rapids, Kalamazoo, Marquette, and Saginaw, already had a flourishing homosexual community within its hierarchical and clerical ranks.

As early as 1968, Cardinal Francis Spellman of New York, had shipped one of his “favorites,” Francis Frederick Reh, cross country to become Bishop of Saginaw, Mich.

As for Cardinal Dearden, in 1977 he appointed pro-homosexual Father Kenneth Untener as Rector of St. John’s Provincial Seminaryin Plymouth, Mich. Three years later, Dearden gave the homosexual and pederast-ridden Diocese of Saginaw over to Untener. Reh was Untener’s Co-Consecrator.

So, it probably didn’t disturb Dearden too much when news reached him that his new secretary was cruising around the city’s “gay” zones for anonymous sex.

In an affidavit filed with the Greene Espel Law Firm years later against Nienstedt, WS, a priest of the Detroit Diocese (then a seminarian) stated that he met Nienstedt in 1979 in Palmer Park, a “gay” cruising ground on Woodward Avenue in Detroit. W.S. said he was there to solicit anonymous sex with another man. Around 11 p.m. a green Cadillac drove into the area and the driver asked him (WS) if he had any “poppers,” and he said, yes. [‘Poppers’ is the street name for a muscle relaxer popular among sodomites.] The driver parked the car and WS got in.  That’s when Nienstedt recognized WS and looked shock. Nienstedt asked him if he was still at —– [redacted]. WS said he didn’t give Nienstedt any poppers and got out of the car and left.

Dearden Sends Nienstedt Back to Rome

Coincidence or not, in 1980, Cardinal Dearden sent Nienstedt back to Rome as a minor official, Second Grade, at the Vatican Secretariat of State (1980-1985). In addition to working towards his Doctor of Sacred Theology, Nienstedt served as Assistant Chaplain at the Bambino Gesù Hospital in Rome.

Nienstedt also served as Chaplain (1981-1984) at the now defunct Notre Dame High School for Boys in Rome, a boarding school operated by the Brothers of the Congregation of the Holy Cross.

When Nienstedt returned to the Archdiocese of Detroit in the mid-1980s there had been a dramatic change of guard –Cardinal Dearden had resignedin 1980, and Archbishop Edmund Casimir Szoka, a native of Grand Rapids, had been appointed by Pope John Paul II to fill the vacancy.

From 1986 to 1987, Nienstedt temporarily served at two parishes in Oakland County while teaching as an Adjunct Professor of Moral Theology at Ss. Cyril and Methodius Seminary/St. Mary’s College in Orchard Lake.

Szoka Appoints Nienstedt Seminary Rector

In 1988, Archbishop Szoka named Nienstedt Rector of Sacred Heart Major Seminary in Detroit. At about the same time, Szoka closed Dearden’s liberal seminary, St. John’s in Plymouth, and gave Nienstedt orders to implement a more traditional Catholic program of priestly formation at Sacred Heart. Openly homosexual staff and seminarians were ousted, but closeted homosexuals were permitted to remain. Nienstedt remained.

External propriety in seminary dress, etiquette and manners and even physical appearance was deemed mandatory by Nienstedt who liked his men handsome, fit, cultured and obedient, including being open to his sexual solicitation as the following commentary from a former seminarian informs us:

According to an affidavit, sworn to and signed on April 19, 2014, JH [James Heathcott,] now married with two children living in Oregon, stated that in 1987 at age 18, he enrolled at Sacred Heart Major Seminary. One year later, in 1988 Nienstedt was appointed rector. JH said the whole tone of seminary life changed. One day, Nienstedt called him into his office and asked, “have you explored your sexuality?” Then he asked, “Do you think you have homosexual tendencies?” JH answered that he was not “gay.” Nevertheless, Nienstedt suggested the young seminarian undergo counseling. Later, that same year, Nienstedt came over to the hallway by JH’s bedroom and asked the seminarian to join him for a weekend ski trip with two other seminarians at a private chalet. The young man suggested that the invitation was inappropriate and declined. The rector left with in “OK.” A few days later, Nienstedt sent him a letter marked “confidential,” in which he suggested that the seminarian’s “recent behavior,” would send a wrong message to other seminarians and that he should leave the seminary. The following morning Nienstedt got his revenge and told JH to pack his bags and leave. The seminarian left. A short while later JH sent a letter to Cardinal Szoka stating that Nienstedt had kicked him out of the seminary. Szoka never replied. In retrospect, JH said he believed that Nienstedt was “grooming” him (for a homosexual liaison).

Cardinal Szoka Replaced by Cardinal Maida

All seemed to be going well for Nienstedt when in April 1990, his patron, Cardinal Szoka was summoned to Rome and appointed President of the Prefecture for the Economic Affairs of the Holy See. Successive key appointments for Szoka included President of the Pontifical Commission for Vatican City State (1997) and President of the Governorate of Vatican City State (2001).

Before leaving for Rome, Szoka expressed his gratitude to Nienstedt by making him a monsignor.

Cardinal Szoka’s replacement was Bishop Adam Joseph Maida, a priest from outside the Archdiocese of Detroit and the former Bishop of Green Bay, Wis.

In 1994, the year Maida was elevated to the Cardinalate, Maida removed Nienstedt as Rector of Sacred Heart Seminary, and demoted him to pastor of the Shrine of the Little Flower in Royal Oak, which, ironically, was one of Detroit’s hottest “gay” suburbs.

Nienstedt served at the Shrine from 1994-1996. In later years, a Detroit priest would claim that that Nienstedt sexually solicited him when he stayed overnight at the rectory, but the proposition was refused. The priest told Archbishop Harry Flynn, “I know when I am being hit on.” [Confidential Memorandum, February 6, 2014 found in Ramsey County Report.]

Were it not for Cardinal Szoka, a John Paul II favorite, working from behind the scenes at the Vatican to secure Nienstedt a bishopric, Nienstedt would probably have remained at the Shrine or been shuffled about from parish to parish, at least under Maida’s watch. As it turned out, Nienstedt was in fact ordained as an auxiliary bishop on June 12, 1996, at the Cathedral of the Most Blessed Sacrament in Detroit with Cardinal Maida as the Principle Consecrator and Cardinal James Hickey of Washington, D.C. and Cardinal Szoka as Co-Consecrators. The new auxiliary served the Southern Region of the Archdiocese of Detroit.

One of the assignments Maida gave to Nienstedt was to shut down the local Dignity “Masses” which had been held at Most Holy Trinity Catholic Church on Porter Street in downtown Detroit for twenty-three years (1974-1997) under Cardinals Dearden and Szoka. Later, Nienstedt said he acted on his own against Dignity, but the order came from his boss, Cardinal Maida.

Dignity USA, which bills itself as the largest and most progressive national lay movement of “lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender Catholics,” also includes “leather/levi clubs” aka “sadomasochist clubs,” to promote “the wholeness and sanctity of our love and (leather) sexuality within the Church.”

Nienstedt successfully removed Dignity from Most Holy Trinity Church and the homosexual clique was forced to move to another location – Sacred Heart Chapel on the campus of Marygrove College operated by the Sisters, Servants of the Immaculate Heart of Mary. The reader will recall that Marygrove was where the homosexual/pederast Father Ritchey studied during the summer months he visited the Hinske home.

Cardinal Szoka Gets Minnesota Diocese for Nienstedt

On June 12, 2001, Nienstedt was appointed Bishop of New Ulm, Minn. He served there until 2007. He also served as Chair of the Committee on Priestly Formation and was a member of the Ad Hoc Committee on Health Care Issues at the United State Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB)

At a personal level, finally free from the watchful eyes of Cardinal Maida, Nienstedt became less inhibited in his homosexual overtures toward young priests and older male teens.

In July 2002, JC [Joel Cycenas] age 35, met Bishop Nienstedt, age 55, for the first time at World Youth Day in Toronto, Canada. The young Minnesota priest who had been ordained only a year before had lunch with the bishop and a regular correspondence ensued between the two men. The bishop became acquainted with the priest’s family. The two attended the theater and symphony and had dinners with alcohol together. According to JC their relationship was strictly plutonic. He said he was a heterosexual. However, one day Nienstedt informed him that a rumor had gotten around among some New Ulm priests that thy were having a homosexual relationship. Nienstedt told JC to deny the rumor if asked. At this point JC began to rethink their relationship. Prior to July 2004, the bishop asked JC to spend some time with him at his family home in Michigan near Lake Huron. After incessant prodding JC agreed. After they arrived at the homestead JC tried to avoid being alone with the bishop.

 One evening when JC was about to leave, the two and some friends were at an eatery and Nienstedt became intoxicated. JC offered to drive back to the bishop’s home. In the car, the bishop started to rub JC’s neck and JC moved away from the contact. The next morning JC asked the bishop to hear his confession in which he told him he was heterosexual so Nienstedt would get the right message. JC flew home that day.

After that, JC had dinner with the bishop in the presence of others. When Nienstedt invited JC to take a trip to India with him and another priest, JC refused. When JC heard that Nienstedt was to become Archbishop of Saint Paul Minneapolis, he applied for laicization from the retiring Archbishop Flynn, but told no one of the real reason for his leaving the priesthood. In later years when JC expressed a desire to return to ministry, Nienstedt treated him like a woman scorned, and made it his business to see that no other bishop would accept him either. [Affidavit of March 23, 2014 to Investigator Leatherman]

While Nienstedt was in New Ulm, he volunteered to help move a young priest of the Duluth Diocese to his new residence. The latter was upset by the attention that the bishop was laying on him and reported the unwanted attention to his bishop. Allegedly the bishop told Nienstedt to stay away from his young priests.

In August 2005, Nienstedt attended World Youth Day celebrations in Cologne, Germany. Among the teens attending the event was a young man who had grown up in New Ulm. The bishop invited the boys who were about 15 and 16 to his hotel room. When they got there, the young men who had gotten wet from a rainstorm were told by Nienstedt to take off their clothes. The two boys stripped naked in front of the bishop. The bishop then stripped off his clothes in front of them. The youth told his mother of the incident when he returned home. RCA investigator Eugene Leatherman stated that Nienstedt had an “inappropriate” relationship with the boy. [Interview of PB by Investigator Eugene Leatherman on December 29, 2015].

Nienstedt Appointed Archbishop of Saint Paul

On April 24, 2007, Bishop John Nienstedt, age 60, was appointed Coadjutor of Saint Paul and Minneapolis.  On May 2, 2008, he took over the office of Archbishop of the plum metropolitan archdiocese from retiring Archbishop Harry J. Flynn.

Only one year later, another incident of sexual inappropriateness by Nienstedt with a minor boy was alleged but not supported:

In December 2013, a priest of the Archdiocese of Saint Paul sent in a report to Detective Urbanski of the St. Paul Police Department stating that on May 5, 2009, a minor boy claimed that Nienstedt had inappropriately touched his buttocks at a Confirmation picture shoot at St. Paul Cathedral. The boy said Nienstedt had one hand on his crosier, and the another on the boy’s shoulder, then moved it down his back and buttocks. The young man, now 19 had taken his case to the police. Nienstedt denied the charges and stated that he has never engaged in any inappropriate contact with a minor. He said he always kept one hand on his ceremonial staff and the other on his vestment. However, a picture of the event supported the boy’s statement. Ramsey County Attorney’s Office reviewed the case and determined that there were no witnesses to the alleged incident and not enough evidence to make a ruling on the charge. On March 12, 2014 the Archbishop was cleared of any wrongdoing in the case.

In terms of clerical pederasty and the sexual abuse of seminarians and young priests by a predatory homosexual hierarchy, the Archdiocese of Saint. Paul and Minneapolis, along with its nine Suffragan Dioceses(Bismarck,Crookston,Duluth,Fargo,New Ulm. Rapid City, Saint Cloud, Sioux Falls, Winona-Rochester), has had a long and troubled past that has been well-documented, without contradiction, in my book The Rite of Sodomy – Homosexuality and the Roman Catholic Church.

Much of the homosexual colonization of the Saint Paul Archdiocese and its Suffragan dioceses took place from 1975 to 1995 under the reign of homosexual Archbishop John R. Roach, not to be confused with Bishop James S. Rausch, then the homosexual Bishop of Phoenix.

Roach’s successor, Archbishop Harry Flynn simply extended and compounded this moral turpitude by repeatedly covering-up homosexual scandals and crimes of pederasty in the archdiocese. And Flynn’s successor, Archbishop John Nienstedt did the same with the same disastrous results.

Since the vice of sodomy in the Catholic Church is largely an inter-generational affair with homosexual prelates ordaining and promoting fellow clerical sodomites to high office, it is not surprising that Archbishop Nienstedt, who got his start in the Archdiocese of Detroit, should have made his last hurrah in the Twin City Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis.

The Troubled Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis

The sexually troubled John Clayton Nienstedt, Bishop of New Ulm, Minn., was appointed Coadjutor Archbishop of the homosexual and pederast troubled Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis on April 24, 2007, by Pope Benedict XVI.

Nienstedt succeeded the retiring Archbishop Harry Flynn one year later, on May 2, 2007. His promotion was attributed to his ongoing Detroit patron in Rome, the still powerful Cardinal Edmond Casimir Szoka, retired President of the Governatorate of Vatican City State. Cardinal Szoka, who maintained all his Curial memberships until age 80, died on August 20, 2014, in Novi, Michigan.

Habits of Perversion Die Hard

After Archbishop Nienstedt got himself settled into his new Archdiocese, he quickly resumed his old pattern of “grooming” junior and senior seminarians, this time at St. John Vianney Seminary located on the campus of the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul.

Rev. Eugene Tiffany, who was ordained in 1972 for the Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis has been a respected priest and retreat master for more than four decades. He was one of the first priests to observe that Nienstedt appeared to be more interested in grooming seminarians for himself than for Christ.

In his affidavit for the Greene Espel Law Firm and later for RCAO investigators Eugene Leatherman and Stephanie Wiersma, Tiffany said he was concerned about Nienstedt’s interest in college-age men at the seminary and the Archbishop’s practice of staying overnight at the seminary even though his own residence was just five miles away. This was something an archbishop should not be doing, said Tiffany.

In the spring of 2011, Tiffany’s concerns were mirrored by another priest who was also worried about Nienstedt’s frequent visits to the seminary and his inordinate attraction to seminarians and young priests.

According to Tiffany, the Archbishop created opportunities to get close to young men. For example, he regularly attended the “Last Chance Mass,” an outreach offered by the seminary to the students of University of St. Thomas and the public. It took place on Saturday night at 9 p.m. and was followed by refreshments, and a chance to socialize.

Later, in his defense, Nienstedt would claim that his accusers had an ax to grind against him because they were in favor of homosexuality. But clearly, Fr. Tiffany was not one of these men.

The Krenik Case – A Prelude to the Afternoon of a Perp

On November 4, 2010, Father Michael John Krenik, pastor of St. Hubert Catholic Church in Chanhassen was arrested at 1:20 pm at a homosexual cruising area in a St. Paul park, after Krenik exposed himself to an undercover St. Paul police officer. Upon his arrest, the priest temporarily resigned from St. Hubert. Krenik pleaded guilty and was convicted of indecent exposure and lewd conduct in public. His misdemeanor conviction was dismissed in November 2011 upon the successful completion of his one-year probation period during which time the diocese payed for his “treatment” at Saint John Vianney Center in Philadelphia.

After the Diocesan Clergy Review Board recommended that Krenik not be returned to active ministry, Nienstedt made the homosexual priest his confidential secretary.

On January 23, 2013, Krenik was back in Ramsey County District Court to plead that his conviction of November 4, 2010, be expunged forever from the public record and his criminal record sealed, so that the priest might make “a start fresh” as a hospital chaplain. If approved, the action, in fact, would also permit him to legally deny that he had ever been charged and/or arrested on a morals charge.

The Minnesota Department of Human Services opposed the expungement while the St. Paul’s City Attorney’s Office favored it. The deciding voice aimed at influencing the judge to approve of the expungement after a 60-day waiting period that would permit legal appeals by law enforcement officials, appears to be that of Archbishop Nienstedt who wrote the judge to give Krenik a second chance. She did.

Whistle-blower Jenifer Haselberger

The critical state of affairs related to clerical sexual abuse of minors and vulnerable adults in the Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis under Archbishop Nienstedt was captured in sworn testimony made by Jennifer M. Haselberger, JCL, on July 7, 2014.  Miss Haselberger served as Chancellor for Canonical Affairs and chief archivist and record keeper for the Archdiocese under Archbishop Nienstedt from August 2008 until her resignation in April 2013.

The following selections taken from Haselberger’s deposition under oath, will help set the stage for the Saint Paul and Minneapolis Archdiocese’s investigation of charges of sexual misconduct made against the Archbishop Nienstedt, and the circumstances surrounding his forced resignation on June 15, 2015.  A number of these references will also be valuable to the reader when discussing Archdiocesan sexual politics and the various inquiries into Archbishop’s continuing “inappropriate” aka “deviant” behaviors:

The Diocesan Review Board is an advisory body, not empowered to investigate or reach a determination. The Charter [Dallas Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People of 2002] and Essential Norms [USCCB Revised 2011], are clear on these points – making a determination is the sole responsibility of the diocesan bishop and/or the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.        

I also made my feelings known on more than one occasion regarding the sending of emails to potential victims… I have met with victims everywhere from military bases to free needle clinics, wherever the felt comfortable. I don’t recall ever approaching a complainant exclusively by email. …

The way in which the Archdiocese sought information from potential complainants was one factor that led me to the opinion… that when the Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis “investigated” something it was always done in such a way as to ensure that we concluded the investigation with less clarity than we began with.

I first came to doubt that the Archbishop [Nienstedt] and his were staff being honest regarding their knowledge and handling of sexual abuse around October [2013] (as a result of comments made at a public event for clergy) and that conclusion was only strengthened by the email announcement from the Archdiocese  regarding the Thurner lawsuit filed on October 29, 2013 (the Archdiocese announcement implied that it was aware of only one previous victim, and December statements made in Court by attorneys for the Archdiocese who stated that there had only been one case of sexual abuse of a minor by a priest since 2004.) The final straw for me was when the Archbishop himself stated in 2013 that he believed that the issue of clergy sexual abuse had been taken care of when he became Archbishop in 2008… .

In that draft [annual self-assessment draft of July 4, 2012] I called out the Archdiocesan leadership for having priests in ministry who had sexually abused minors, and for not taking the necessary precautions warranted by the behavioral and psychological historic that were well-documented in our files.

After enduring months of harassment, threats, and intimidation- examples of which I will provide later in this affidavit- I resigned as Chancellor for Canonical Affairs on April 30, 2013.

 In her testimony, Haselberger mentions the names, but not particulars, of more than a baker’s dozen of alleged and/or convicted sexual clerical perpetrators from the Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis who served under Archbishops William Brady, Leo Binz, John Roach, Harry Flynn, John Nienstedt and/or Bernard Hebda, and their various auxiliary bishops. Here is a sampling of the clerical sexual perpetrators cited in the Haselberger deposition. The name in square brackets indicates the presiding archbishop at the time of the sexual abuse:

  • Father Gerald G. Grieman– The alleged pederast was ordained on June 2, 1979, by Archbishop Roach. He retired in “good standing” from full-time ministry in 1999 at age 53. In 2006, Grieman was accused of sexually abusing a young boy, but, according to Haselberger, the Archdiocesan Review Board never investigated the case.  [Roach].
  • Father Joseph L. Wajda– A serial pederast, Wajda claimed his first young male victim one month after his ordination in 1973. [Binz, Roach, Flynn, Nienstedt].
  • Father Thomas Adamson– Adamson was a pederast priest known to be operating in the Winona Diocese and Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis. He couldn’t remember the number of underage male victims he sexually abused, but records show it was over 25. The Archdiocese hid Adamson’s abuse record for 23 years. One victim was eventually awarded $3.5 million.
  • Father Francisco Montero– Affair with adult female. Molested her four-year old daughter. In July 2007, while under criminal investigation, Catholic Church officials in Ecuador recalled the priest and Archdiocese said he was free to return to his native country. [Flynn]
  • Father Michael Jerome Keating– A former member of the Companions of Christ, and a Catholic Studies Professor at the University of St. Thomas, Keating was accused of sexually abusing at least four underage girls between 1997 and 2000 while in the seminary. Nevertheless, he was ordained by Flynn at age 42 in 2002. During a semester in Rome at the University’s Catholic Studies program, Keating was also reported to have sexual relations with an underage girl (age 14) and two adult women. In October 2013, Keating was put on a leave of absence after Marie Miekle, one of his alleged victims (age 13 to 15 at the time of the alleged assault), now grown, brought charges of rape against the priest. One year later resigned from St. Thomas. Keating denied all charges. [Flynn, Nienstedt].
  • Father Christopher Wenthe– Ordained 2003, Wenthe was convicted of third-degree criminal conduct against a troubled young woman, to whom he offered “spiritual aid and comfort.” The priest introduced the inexperienced victim to sodomy and other deviant sexual activities. [Flynn, Nienstedt].
  • Father Michael Kolar– Ordained in 1969 and laicized in 1993, the Kolar case involved the sexual abuse of numerous young girls during the 1970s. The abuse was kept a well-guarded secret by Archdiocesan officials including Archbishop Roach for decades. In 1988, Kolar was sent to the St. Luke Institute for “treatment.” When Kolar became too hot to handle, the Archdiocese shipped him to South America. Later, Kolar alleged he had been sexually abused by Catholic Charities chicken hawk Msgr. Jerome Boxleitner, who had access to young boys at St. Joseph’s Home for Children in Minneapolis. [Binz, Roach, Flynn, Nienstedt].
  • Father Timothy McCarthy– The “hip” blonde heartthrob McCarthy was ordained in 1973 and permanently removed from ministry in 1991. He engaged in homosexual acts with young boys and late teen males, as well as sexwith teen and college-age women. After the priest received “treatment,” Archbishop Roach recommended McCarthy for a Master’s degree program in psychological counseling at St. Thomas. The ungrateful priest got his degree and went on to counsel St. Thomas students, some of whom he sexually abused. [Binz, Roach].
  • Father Robert M. Thurner– In 1982, Thurner told Archbishop Roach that he sexually abused a 16 -year-old boy, but Roach never reported the crime to the police. Instead he moved the priest to another parish where Thurner abused a young female. [Roach, Flynn, Nienstedt]
  • Father Gilbert Gustafson– A notorious pederast as well as a pedophile abuser of young girls, Gustafson destroyed the lives of all his many victims including Brian Herrity, who died of AIDS complications at age 28. Gustafson had abused the 10-year old altar boy for five years. Herrity received a $150,000 cash settlement, but in 1995 as he was dying, his father asked for additional help for his son’s medical bills and hospice care, but the Archdiocese said no. As for Gustafson, the Archdiocese took good financial care of him, He was awarded “disability”compensation based on his criminal pederasty (!), and the Archdiocese continued to pay his salary, health insurance, living expenses, psychological “treatment,” travel, and education and even helped the perpetrator establish a consulting firm and steered clients his way. [Roach, Flynn, Nienstedt].
  • Father Kenneth LaVan– Ordained in 1958, the serial predator of women and young girls (youngest age 12), was not removed from ministry until fifty plus years later in 2013 afterhis abuse records were discovered in secret personnel files of the Archdiocese by attorney Jeffrey Anderson. La Van was sent to two “treatment” centers including the Servants of the Paracletes in New Mexico and the favored St. Luke Institute in Maryland. The monitoring of the perp after La Van’s release from St. Luke was put in the hands of two assigned supervisors – Fr. Joseph Wajda and Father Richard Francis Skluzacek, both criminal pederasts. Incredibly, LaVan abused one victim studying to become a nun at a convent, and another recovering from a brain injury. Archbishop Nienstedt was known to interact socially with LaVan. [Brady, Binz, Roach, Flynn, Nienstedt].
  • Father Jonathan P. Shelley– Both Archbishops Flynn and Nienstedt knew that Shelley had pederastic inclinations prior to his ordination in 1995. As a seminarian, Shelley was reported to have in sexual interactions with teenage boys at the Dunrovin Retreat Center, but he was allowed to proceed. Later, Shelley permitted an 18-year-old parishioner to live in the parish offices while the youth was having a dispute with his parents. On March 10, 2013, the Archdiocese was charged with possessing child porn images found on Shelley’s former computer from 2003 [when Shelley was at St. Jude of the Lake] and from 2012 when he was at John the Baptist Church [put on sabbatical in June 2012]. Church officials, however, did not turn the pornographic materials over to the police. Instead they hid the incriminating stash in a vault for years. Three days later, on March 13, 2013, the police went to pick up the three pornographic CDs with more than 1,300 images of young males engaged in sex acts. The police allowed the Archdiocese to select and cull the images [Archdiocesan officials selected all male adultporn images] that were to be sent to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children for examination. However, according to Haselberger, when she reviewed the images they included a pre-pubescent boy appearing to engage in oral sex with another male. There was also a series of intimate e-mails between Shelley and a minor boy. The Prosecutor’s Office decided not to press charges. In 2014, Shelley was given a leave of absence, but in January 2018, Archbishop Hebda announced that Shelley was returning to a “limited” ministry as a prison chaplain. Shelley is back in business thanks to Archbishop Hebda. [Flynn, Nienstedt, Hebda].
  • Father Curtis Wehmeyer– The convicted pederast is currently finishing up the remainder of his prison term of five years for sexually abusing two boys and the possession of child pornography. According to Wehmeyer, he was sexually abused as a minor. A priest at St. John Vianney Seminary in St. Paul who first met Wehmeyer in 1993, four years prior to his ordination, described the young man as being secretive, anxious and nervous and believed that he should not be ordained. But he was. Wehmeyer was appointed Parochial Vicar at St. Joseph’s in West St. Paul where he began to act out by using the boys’ bathroom at the school and by cruising local homosexual park areas in the wee hours of the morning. Three years after his ordination by Archbishop Flynn in 2001, Father Wehmeyer attempted to solicit sex from two young men, ages 19 and 20 at a Barnes & Noble bookstore in Roseville, Minn. Vicar General Kevin McDonough was notified of the incident. The Archdiocese sent Wehmeyer to the St. Luke Institute in Maryland for “treatment.” He returned to St. Joseph Parish and attended Sexaholics Anonymous meetings and was put under an ill-managed monitoring program operated by the Archdiocese. In 2006, Wehmeyer sexually abused a young boy. That same year, Wehmeyer was caught “cruising” for male sex partners at Keller Park in Maplewood by a Ramsey County Sheriff’s officer who also reported the incident to McDonough. Thus, after two homosexual incidents reported to the Vicar General, Nienstedt gave Wehmeyer a plum assignment at Blessed Sacrament in St. Paul where the priest sexually abused another young boy. In April 2009, Haselberger sent Nienstedt a written memo reminding him of Wehmeyer’s criminal acts. A short while later a priest notified the Archdiocese that Wehmeyer solicited him for sex. Additional reports were coming in regarding the priest’s suspicious presence at a local campground frequented by young boys. There was also the problem of young boys entering and exiting the priest’s camper which was kept on church grounds. In the summer of 2009, Archbishop Nienstedt gave Wehmeyer a promotion! He made the priest pastor of Blessed Sacrament over the protests of Haselberger and Archdiocesan Chancellor Father Peter Laird.Two months later, Wehmeyer was arrested on suspicion of a DUI.  The priest’s archdiocesan lawyer, Joseph Kueppers, got his client off with a sentence of 90 days in jail and two years of supervised probation. From 2010 to 2012, Wehmeyer claimed more male victims at Blessed Sacrament. The priest’s grooming techniques include giving young boys alcohol and marijuana and showing them pornography. He also toted a gun. On June 20, 2012, the Archdiocese opened a canonical investigation of Wehmeyer which was followed by a request for laicization of the perp. Even at this later date, the St. Paul Police had received no sexual abuse reports of minors from the Archdiocese against Wehmeyer. On June 22, 2012, Wehmeyer was arrested for criminal conduct against two brothers ages 12 and 16, and his computer holding child porn was confiscated by police (adding another 17 counts to the 3 already filed). On February 1, 2013, the priest pleaded guilty to all 20 counts. He was sentenced to five years in prison at the Ramsey County Law Enforcement Center.  On January 29, 2014, the Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minnesota was overjoyed to hear that the Ramsey County Attorney would not criminally charge Archdiocesan officials for failing to report Wehmeyer to the police. No Archdiocesan official including Archbishop Nienstedt ever spent a day in jail.

It should be noted, however, that the above cases are a small representation of the more than 70 known clerical perpetrators found in the Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis, the identity of some of whom was hidden away in secret church personnel files, court records, private settlements, and institutional and police reports, over the last decade.

Is it any wonder that after looking at these Archdiocesan files, Haselberger finally called the Ramsey County Attorney’s Office (RCAO) and the St. Paul Police Department to discuss details of the Shelley and Wehmeyer cases and resigned her office?

Archbishop Nienstedt Lies Twice Under Oath

In his deposition of April 2, 2014, Archbishop Nienstedt gave false testimony on at least two occasions involving the criminal activities of Fathers Kenneth LaVan and Gilbert Gustafson (see above cases).

Nienstedt testified under oath that he did not know until March 2014, that Father LaVan, the notorious rapist of young girls and women with a record of assaults dating back to the 1980s, was still in public ministry. Nienstedt claimed that “As soon as I realized it, I had his faculties removed.” But documents released in August 2014 confirmed that Nienstedt received regular updates on LaVan and approved his continuing work at Twin City parishes as recently as August 15, 2013.

Similarly, Nienstedt testified under oath that he had first learned of the criminal conviction of boy-lover Gil Gustafson “during the last six months,” but in October 2014, when Minnesota Public Radio (MPR) released its documents on the case, they proved that Nienstedt knew about the priest’s criminal past as early as 2008.

Haselberger’s Incredible Revelation 

How is it possible for an archdiocese to descend into such depths of moral turpitude without self-destructing?

That question was answered, indirectly, in a comment found in the Haselberger deposition. Among the archived files she reviewed while working for the Archdiocese was one that contained Archbishop Roach’s personal files on the former priest James Porter.

Who was Father James Robert Porter?

James Robert Porter was not a native son of Minnesota. He was born in 1935 in Revere, Mass. in the Diocese of Fall River. At the time of his death in 2005, he had claimed at least 200 victims, the majority of them boys, in Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Mexico, Texas and Rhode Island.

Porter assaulted his first known victim in 1953, the summer beforehe entered the seminary. He assaulted dozens of boys and girls in eight different Catholic parishes after he was ordained in 1959 [1960?]. Catholic officials never turned the priest over to the police.

In 1967, he was sent for “treatment” for his “vociferous” sexual appetite to the Order of the Servants of the Paraclete Center in New Mexico where, in between therapy sessions, he assisted at various Catholic parishes and assaulted more victims.

Still, in 1969, the Order staff pronounced him “cured” and Porter was released and reassigned to a parish in Bemidji, MN in the Crookston Diocese where he sexually abused more young teens.

In 1971, Archbishop Binz sent Porter back to the Servants of the Paraclete Center in St. Louis for more “treatment.” At this point Porter decided he wanted to leave the priesthood. When he was released he found secular employment and housing in Maplewood, MN.

In 1974, Pope Paul VI accepted Porter’s petition to leave the priesthood.

Porter married in 1976 and had four children by his younger wife. He also tutored students in math at the Transfiguration Catholic School in Maplewood (1982-1991) and taught Sunday school at his church.

In 1984, Porter sexually abused his children’s babysitter and her younger sister, which led to his first arrest and conviction in 1992-1993.  But he served only four months out of six in prison before his conviction was overturned by the Minnesota Supreme Court.

In 1992, the Falls River Diocese reached a $5 million settlement with 68 of Porter’ victims.

In 1993, after dozens of lawsuits were filed against him [200 counts of sexual abuse in Minnesota alone], Porter’s attorney struck a plea bargain and the former priest was sentenced to 18-20 years in a maximum-security prison with the possibility of parole after six years. Porter completed his sentence in 2004, but was still held in prison pending a civil commitment hearing when he died of cancer on February 11, 2005.

Saint Paul and Minneapolis Archdiocese Aids Porter Fund

Now that the reader knows a little bit about James Porter, let’s return to Archbishop Roach’s personal file discovered by Haselberger in the archdiocesan archives which contained a letter written by Reverend Kevin McDonough, Roach’s (and Harry Flynn’s) Vicar General, to the Bishop of the Fall River Diocese explaining the rationale behind the Archdiocese’s decision to contribute to Porter’s legal defense fund.

According to Haselberger:

Father McDonough wrote that in his experience if an accused priest had good legal counsel, his attorney would convince the priest to stay quiet, while if the priest did not have good legal counsel, he was more likely to try and spread the blame for his actions to include others. I don’t remember if it was implied or directly stated that those who could be implicated were the diocese and/or the bishop, but the purpose of the letter was to encourage the bishop to commit to financial assistance for Porter’s legal fees.

That is to say, the Archdiocesan sheeple (parishioners) are to contribute to Porter’ legal fees to insure he won’t squeal on other perps in the Archdiocese, be they bishops or priests or religious. And, that these persons can, in turn, continue to prey on the sheeple’s children with impunity, until one of them is caught and the cycle begins again. And, as in the Gustafson case, the sheeple can be expected to continue to make payments even afterthe perp’s release from jail and his laicization from the priesthood, for his housing, healthcare insurance, and other living expenses.   

Jennifer Haselberger Vindicated

On May 31, 2018, the Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis announced a $210 million settlement in its bankruptcy case, “the largest settlement ever of its kind.” That’s right –  $210 million which will be used to set up a trust fund for more than 450 abuse survivors.

By this time, if the reader’s eyes are not moistened with tears of sorrow and righteous indignation please check your pulse for any sign of life.

(To be continued in Part II)

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  1. Several possible scenarios come to mind.
    Could it be that Vigano released his version because he fears a subpoena in a Federal Rico Investigation of the Church ? AG Shapiro has stated that he was contacted about just that by the Federal Justice Dept. The claim could be made he disappeared because he feared the HX network in the Vatican.
    Is he following the orders of Opus Dei who plan on replacing the resignation slots with their own? After all the CMtv Voris production backed by Opus Dei money is leading the charge for Borgolio and all the Bishops to resign.

    God’s Servant First ,you misunderstood my post on the previous page . I did not mean to imply Vigano himself was after power and money, but the secretive organization of Opus Dei itself. At any rate I am happy everyone can now read Randy’s investigation that published BEFORE Vigano’s so called “memorium”.
    Thanks Louie for providing this !

  2. At this point, Psalm 52 (53 to Modernists and Judaizers) is probably the best way to describe the existing hierarchy. Almost everyone has a skeleton in their closet, and most of those skeletons are homosexual in nature….

  3. Lead, kindly Light, amid the encircling gloom,
    Lead thou me on!
    The night is dark, and I am far from home,–
    Lead thou me on!
    Keep thou my feet; I do not ask to see
    The distant scene,–one step enough for me.

    I was not ever thus, nor prayed that thou
    Shouldst lead me on:
    I loved to choose and see my path, but now
    Lead thou me on!
    I loved the garish days, and, spite of fears,
    Pride ruled my will: remember not past years.

    So long thy power hath blessed me, sure it still
    Will lead me on;
    O’er moor and fen, o’er crag and torrent, till
    The night is gone;
    And with the morn those angel faces smile
    Which I have loved long since, and lost awhile.

    Blessed John Henry Newman

  4. sweepoutthefilth..great theory. Viganos testimony has tons of truth but it has major gaps. I really think you are onto something.

  5. Right now Voris is reporting Wuerl is in hiding and the Pope has arranged to bring him to Rome because of a possible Federal Rico Case.

  6. http://www.catholicherald.co.uk/news/2018/08/28/vigano-responds-to-abuse-cover-up-allegations/

    Ms. Engel has done some excellent work but that work is not without its own problems.

    She accused E. Michael Jones of being an opus dei flunky

    http://www.culturewars.com/2017/Engel.htm

    And she accused Merry del Val of being a homosexual without any proof

    Ms Engel is neither infallible or impeccable but she does, like Francis. refuses to answer some questions.

    ABS will try again – where is the proof Merry del Val was a fag?

  8. All persons, men and women, created by God, are by our intrinsic nature, “heterosexual”. There are two sexes, male and female, and man is ordered to marriage between man and woman and procreation out of marriage. Any other intentional sexual relations are a choice, either fornication or unnatural sodomitical relations. There is no such thing as a person who is “homosexual”. The false terminology is created to spread false evil ideas premised in the terms.

    Sexual sin is not just in physical acts but also by word or thought, and more grave when it is public toleration or endorsement of buggery or any kind of unnatural sexual relations (including acting sexually towards another by acting as if man and wife, other than physically) which involves endangering many other souls and leading the innocent, especially children, into sin.

    We must use the true objective terms if objective factual and moral truth are not to be subverted, as is the intent behind the novel and false idea of a man or woman being “homosexual”. God made us all as He intended us to be, we are all naturally ordered to marriage and procreation with the opposite sex.

    We are all called to work to avoid sin and occasions of sin, to fight temptation to do evil.
    Natural God-given teason tells us that sodomitical relations or any sexualised behaviour between persons of the same sex is unnatural and against God’s order written in our hearts and minds.

  10. Hold on ABS, you posted allover the Internet that Fr John Gallagher was a liar and that B bishop Barbarito was a great Bishop.
    Excuse me while gag by your BS. You should have quit while you were ahead !
    Fr John Gallagher caught a priest in his rectory showing porn to a 14 yr old boy . He convinced his to turn himself into the police and admitted his guilt stating sodomy was in his culture . The Palm Beach Sheriff wrote a letter to the Vatican commending Fr Gallagher. Barbarito had a letter written at every Mass saying Fr Gallagher was insane. Fr gallgher had notified the Chancery and was chastised and told ,”We just send these priests back to their country.” THEN maybe the Chandery called the police but Fr Gallagher was the one who did the right thing. He was then punished and the locks on the rectory were changed. He won the right in court to sue the Bishop for slander. The Diocesan lawyers claimed he was just angry he wasn’t promoted and as usual the diocese was off the hook due to Article One of the Constitution and the judge refusing to meddle into the policy of the a Religious institution. I have seen this tactic played out in other Diocese before.
    https://www.irishtimes.com/news/social-affairs/religion-and-beliefs/irish-priest-praised-in-us-police-letter-to-the-vatican-1.2523108
    Forget writing how prejudice against Hispanics Gallagher is because he does not stand outside the church shaking hands ! It doesn’t fly! Or how great Barabrito is ,because he has a history too .
    Go blow your smoke somewhere else.
    Do some research yourself for a change and you’ll find Jones has no problem taking OD money.

  12. News to you Isles, Randy is not out to make money.
    But you might just learn something !

  13. On the lighter side . An actual email from someone who dealt with Wuerl after his son was shot on a Parochial school bus by a boy who was being abused by a priest in Pittsburgh. The poor child then took his own life. I am happy to see this father still has a sense of humor……….

    “Cardianl Donlad “The Lavender Don” Wuerl is on the run. He has been spotted in a white, Ford Bronco. He’s been driving around the beltway for the past 4 hours and can;t get out of the middle lanes. So far he has made 15 laps around Washington DC.
    Although it can’t be confirmed, but it’s believed that O.J. Simpson is in the back seat giving Wuerl driving directions.”
    Watch for yourself and judge for yourself:
    BREAKING NEWS EXCLUSIVE: Wuerl Bombshell
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uV8JQdXOvMQ&feature=share

  14. What cannot be dismissed is the absolute demonic hatred of Our Lord and His Church by these evil sick perverts posing as Our Lord’s servants. While Randy’s thorough investigative reporting is appreciated and admirable, I can’t help but wonder about other aspects including lavish lifestyles at the expense of the Catholic faithful. How many were murdered to protect this network of homosexual perversion? This knowledge is a heavy burden to bear. God bless and protect Randy Engel.

  15. sweepoutthefilth,

    Go ahead and sit out the rest of this comments section. The blog will continue to function without your incessant tootling. Kindly grant us at least one comments section where we don’t have to wade through your verbal incontinence.

    All insults in response are hereby anticipated and rejected.

    Pax,
    A

  16. ….excerpt from “Preparation for death” by St. Alphonsus de Liguori

    “In the first place, a bad habit produces blindness. And why, indeed, do the saints always beg for light from God, trembling lest they should become the worst sinners in the world. Every sins produces blindness; and as sin increases, so does the blindness increase.
    As in a vessel full of earth the light of the sun cannot penetrate, so in a heart full of vices Divine light cannot enter. “The wicked walk round about” (Ps. 11,9).
    Having fallen into that dark pit, the unhappy wretches can do nothing but sin.

    St. Peter compares the habitual sinner to the swine that wallows in the mire. (2 St. Peter 2,22).
    St. Augustine says, ‘the very habit of committing sin prevents sinners from perceiving the evil they do. So that they live as if they no longer believed in God, in heaven, in hell, or in eternity. Sins, however horrible, when once habitual, seem little or no sin at all”
    St. John Chrysostom observes, ‘Habit is a merciless thing; it forces men, sometimes even against their will, to the commission of unlawful acts……’
    ‘The habit of sin hardens the heart; and God justly permits it in punishment of resistance to His calls.
    “The Lord hath mercy on whom He will; and whom He will He hardeneth” (Rom. 9, 18).
    How can they, indeed, avoid the precipice if they no longer see?
    It requires a miracle of grace. These unhappy beings will open their eyes in hell, when it will be of no avail to open them, unless it be to weep the more bitterly over their folly.”

  17. I read Abp Vigano’s statement. I also read his denial [with paper records] absolving him from any cover up.
    Now I read Louie and Engels disturbing diatribes which slavishly follow the Vatican smear machine and the MSM.
    I’m done with this site. I really thought I had discovered a goldmine of Catholicity but apart from one or two – the rest of you are arrogant and self-seeking with nothing but diabolical disorientation to offer. My God, if you can’t trust Catholics to tell the truth based on facts not imagination – who can you trust!
    I’ll stick with the Remnant, the Wild voice, Roman Catholic Man and Rorate Caeli.

  19. Yup. Also, if you raise any objection, or even question it, guess what? You’re a HIMOSEXUAL COMMUNIST and sweepoutthefilth and Randy Engel can prove it with rumors and innuendo.

    As our President would say: “SAD!”

  21. Do I got this right? Pope PBXVI places “secret” sanctions on McCarrick because of his scandalous record but doesn’t make it publicly known and apparently never enforces the “secret” sanctions that he imposed on McCarrick to begin with and yet Bishop Vigano accuses Pope Francis of a “cover-up” and insists he resign while he is only doing the same exact things that Pope PBXVI his hero did before PF became Pope. I don’t know about anybody else but for me “secret” is just another but nicer sounding word for “coverup.” Why can’t Vigano just define what Pope Francis did as a “secret” rather than a “cover-up” like he does with PBXVI? And what better way is there for Pope Francis to help keep PBXVI’s “secret” sanctions unknown and “secret” than to appoint McCarrick to prominent positions?
    Check out this photo at top of article I posted. Talk about a picture speaking a thousand words. Whew! Reminds of that one of Pope Francis with that bishop thats posted often. Amazingly, the only other blog other than AKA Catholic that I find as the only place to get an objective “both sides of the story” viewpoint of this so-called Vigano bombshell is the National Catholic Reporter. Pretty good analysis here: https://www.ncronline.org/news/accountability/there-truth-archbishop-viganos-text-and-how-are-catholics-know

  22. Cardinal Mery del Val was the Secretary of State for Pope St. Pius X. My understanding is that he was in that position when Pius X died, August 20th, 1914. His death was attributed to: a heart attack, stroke, a sudden bout of the flu in mid August Rome, or a cold or most commonly believed, a broken heart. He died over a series of days with a gradual paralysis moving from the legs to the upper body and finally to the head. He lost his ability to speak while still being fully alert. Those are the symptoms of hemlock poisoning. Not 24 hours before his death, Father Wernz, the Superior General of the Jesuits, otherwise known as the Black Pope, died, and as far as I can ascertain, he had the same symptoms and was said to also have died of a “broken heart”. He was an expert theologian in the field of the papacy and it’s operation.

    There were two people I believed who would have investigated Pius’ death as being suspicious: Father Wernz and Cardinal Merry Del Val. Father Wernz was dead. That left Merry Del Val. As far as I can ascertain he never raised any questions concerning Pius X’s death. The masons made a documented attempt to take over the papacy in 1904 with the near election of Cardinal Rampolla to be pope. Msgr. Jouin stopped that with the help of Emperor Franz Joseph. But with Pius’ death and that of Fr. Wernz only Cardinal Ferrata stood in the way of a complete takeover of the Vatican by the mason. Ferrata was almost elected pope in 1914, but we’ll never know for sure because of the post-conclave secrecy that was imposed on the conclave for the first time in Catholic history – exactly how masons operate. As a consolation prize they offered him the position of Secretary of State. Ferrata knew he had made powerful enemies and was careful with his food and drink. But, in one unguarded moment he took a cup of tea, which as soon as he drank it, he realized he was poisoned.. He died three days later, only two months after obtaining his position as Vatican Secretary of State. So where was Cardinal Merry Del Val in all of this? If he was a homosexual, he was blackmailable. His silence was deafening in all of this. There had to have been a reason. In those days homosexuality was treated much more seriously than it is today. It most certainly was blackmail material. While I don’t claim to have proof of his homosexuality, I do realize he had to have been constrained for some reason in not seeking to investigate Pius’ death and his very hurried funeral.

  26. This post by Mary pretty much sums up why I can’t take this place seriously. It is entertaining in these troubling times though, so I thank you for that. I don’t mean to offend the sincere, knowledgeable and respectful posters but this has become a digital cesspool… Yet like Lot’s wife, I can’t look away lol

  27. Introduction to Logic 11th edition by Irving Copi and Carl Cohen:
    “Argument Ad Hominen, Abusive
    Participants in strenuous arguments sometimes disparage the character of their opponents, deny their intelligence or reasonableness, question their integrity, and so on. But the character of an individual is logically irrelevant to the truth or falsehood of what that person says, or to the correctness or incorrectness of that person’s reasoning. To contend that proposals are bad, or assertions false, because they are asserted by “radicals” or “extremists” is a typical example of the fallacy ad hominem, abusive.”

    Am I therefore a “radical extremist” in need of psychiatric help because I did this research in the 1914 New York Times? Pray, explain to me, how that “professional need for help” follows from legitimate research into the historical record????

    Ad hominnem attacks: Bull Shit in ancient Rome, Bull Shit today. Nothing new under the sun.

  28. @Herve: I assume you are being sarcastic.

    The Remnant: loud-mouthed right-liberals who wanted the CIA to investigate Pope Francis’ election and allow the apostate ecumaniac Joseph D’Hypocrito to write columns for them.

    The Wild Voice: promotes the false apparitions of “Maria Divine Mercy” who is just a step below Medjugoogoo in terms of credibility (in other words, less than zero)

    Roman Catholic Man and Rorate are fine, but if one really wants to be Traditional (as opposed to right-liberal), I’d suggest ditching the blogs and forums altogether and sticking to the Church Fathers, the Catechism of Trent, Romano Amerio and James Larson. Can’t go wrong with them.

  29. If your contention is that St. Pius X, enemy of Modernism and perhaps the greatest Pope of the 20th century, either actively sheltered a homosexual colleague or was blissfully unaware of his proclivities, then your theory – interesting as it sounds – calumniates the memory of this great Saint, and lowers him to the level of John Paul II.

  30. Case Notes, page 2
    Attending Physician: Professor Q
    Patient’s name: A******** J* (redacted)

    Diagnosis:
    1. Paranoid schizophrenia with OCD-like (Tourette) symptoms (ICD F20.0)
    2. Ego-dystonic homosexuality (ICD F66.1)

    Context of current assessment:
    First follow-up visit after initiation of combined treatment with psychotherapy and long-acting injectable antipsychotic (Risperdal)

    Observed:
    1. Mild irritability towards women
    2. Marked improvement in coprolalia and verbal stereotypies
    3. Reduction in compulsive posting
    4. Reduction in increased verbal output
    5. Persistence of delusions of grandeur with themes related to belonging to a “master race”

    Plan of management:
    1. Continue online psychotherapy and Risperdal
    2. Referred to Dr. Marcus Bachmann for aversive therapy (electroshock) to deal with residual symptoms of homosexuality.

    Issued 31/8/18. Confidential.

  35. Professor Q, these masons, Rampolla and the future Benedict XV, were high up in Leo XIII’s administration. I don’t know if Cardinal Merry del Val was was either a mason or a homosexual but Rampolla’s masonry only came to full light upon his death — about 6 months before Pius’ death. Rampolla was given a responsible position in the Pius X administration. Please make a distinction between the occult activities of Rampolla, the future Benedict XV and Merry del Val and the flagrant more open activities of a modern McCarrick, Whurl, etc. Rampolla and Company attempted — and succeeded– in hiding their secret society and homosexual activity while the moderns couldn’t care less. Trust me, Pius X’s reputation is intact.

  36. Get lost Troll Al”cuck”phonse .
    Go pick o fight with someone else again like blunder Herve Prof Queer. All really your friends here to scuttle Louie’s Blog.
    Some of us observing for awhile have seen the game plan.
    Word to the Wise…..Ignore the lot of them.

  37. Yes, sarcastic, though a move to those venues would be less dangerous to one’s soul than some of the content here, largely because the worst offenders God’s servant first referenced are already banned on those platforms.

  38. IslesRoo1, the entertainment value is certainly significant. If you can maintain that perspective, you’ll be fine. The danger is to those who take what people here say seriously. Those responsible will be held accountable for leading others astray, in this life or in the hereafter. One can hope that they are motivated by mental disease or defect and not malice or pride, and are therefore not entirely responsible for their actions.

    Mary, it’s not an ad hominem attac to call someone mad if they truly are. You accuse St. Pius X here, and in the past you have repeatedly called for the non-existent “Catholic heads of state” in Europe to literally invade the Vatican and capture or kill Pope Francis. These are not actions or opinions of a sound and rational mind.

  39. Fr Gallagher is not only a liar, he is insane.

    Fr G, told the media he was the one who told the cops about the perv priest HE invited to minister at Holy Name. That is a lie.

    The Boy’s Father called the cops.

    Fr G did Not inform the Diocese about the actions of the perv priest.

    You do not know a single parishioner at Holy Name who have in tomato knowledge that Fr G is insane. ABS does.

    You have zero credibility in this matter as you are ignorant of the facts

    Adios

  40. Fleur de Lis, Truth doesn’t matter to some of you at all. You just want to be on the right team. Did you know that the vast majority of informants and whistleblowers aren’t clean as the driven snow? But you have to just leap directly onto the false premise that if Vigano covered and BXVI covered then Jorge is exonerated. And you just know that you hate that guy and he’s on the wrong team. If you placed your interest more in the truth instead of these bizarre cults of personalities you’d be less at risk of winding up with egg on your face and allowing evil to triumph over and over. Be Catholic instead of radtrad, that would be a good start. So in the history of the Catholic Church the gates of Hell never prevailed because we managed to force the resignation of any Pope who was dirty and covered up a crime, right? Unbelievable watching this unfold. Everyone has lost their minds.

  41. The question about his outage sodomitic actions was asked to Ms Enge who made the charge.

    Do you speak for her?

  42. One can click on the link to an earlier post at AKA in which ABS asks Ms Engel for proof of her charge that Rafael Cardinal Merry del Val was a fag who screwed around with boys

    https://akacatholic.com/postscripts-to-the-jonesvoris-affair/

    ABS proves her charges that del Val was pro-Rampolla are completely ahistorical but useful for her polemics if one is ignorant of the truth

    Professor Q also identifies a saint that Ms. Engle falsely charged was a fag.

    Her reputation is taking a huge hit with these continuing false charges.

  43. Yes Johnbillbee , When protecting the Image that clashes with the words and real actions behind the scenes . How do we know ?
    How stalwart or heroic is Vigano who waited till he retired with his pension to point fingers? his “NOT ME” moment seems a bit shallow.
    I would have considered him a tad more valiant if he was a truther during the time the sex abuse reports were arriving on his desk as Papal Nuncio.
    This was all planned to hit the news at the peak of the laity’s righteous fury.
    Where were the Catholic readers after the Philladelphia Grand Jury Report published it’s findings? More than a few cried foul when Monsignore Lynn was on trial for his file shredding project ordered by Bevilaqua.Only a few months earlier Lynn was at another Borromeo class mate’s rectory parting across the bridge with his homosexual confreres and over heard by rectory employees yelling he ,”…did not want to take the fall for Bevilaqua.”
    Obviously, neither does Vigano which Randy does a
    great job documenting !

  44. ABS appears to be armed with slanderous gossipmonger kryptonite: actual facts and firsthand knowledge. How will sweepoutthefilth respond? If history is any indication, she will maintain a Pope Francissian silence on the matter.

    Your remarks about Randy Engel’s serious errors are also to be taken seriously. These are not insignificant mistakes, and they raise grave questions about credibility.

  45. Dear Professor Q,

    Simply a warning, as I too once thought Larson had much good to offer, while his is a particularly pernicious malignity, consequent to the reality that he is certainly intellectually gifted, thus very able to deceive, much like Josef Ratzinger, his false pope. James Larson is an apostate to the One True Faith, in his absolute cowardice, while he simply does not acknowledge being as being, when he proffers his very website as the, “WarAgainstBeing”. How paradoxical, that while at once he suggests that he is a faithful son of the Church, defending “being as being”, he actually posits a literal affront to the law of non-contradiction, while parlaying the utter fallacy that this creature beast thing from Hell, established in the false pontificate of so called, “John XIII”, is actually as literally the spotless as untarnished, immutable, and inviolable Mystical Body of Christ, His Bride, the Holy, Roman, Catholic Church.

    Find here the evidence, right from his own mind, and at his very own website:
    http://waragainstbeing.com/partxi/
    While Larson has the unmitigated audacity to suggest that Pope Saint Pius V somehow spoke against Pope Paul IV, whom he followed in immediate succession, Pope Pius V actually as literally affirmed the authoritative teaching of Pope Paul IV in “Cum Ex Apostolatus Officio”, in his own Papal Bull, “Inter multiplices”.
    I pray this helps. In caritas.

  48. http://www.ncregister.com/blog/benjamin-wiker/from-a-moral-historical-perspective-this-crisis-is-worse-than-you-realize
    I don’t know this author but I really love him for not having lost his mind. This is the problem. This is a fake church trying to de-Christianize the world. They can de-Christianize the world by promoting and fostering sodomy and general immorality but maybe they started with taking away the MASS? I’d say after that everything else is child’s play, their job was done and now their just messing around.

  49. “LOOK WHAT HAPPENED TO THE KING OF FRANCE.” ! Did the bloodthirsty French Peasants make it to heaven?
    For anyone who loves Our Holy Mother remembers Her Words .
    Again a revolution is brewing . This time inside and outside the the Church.
    Catholics everywhere are calling for Francis to resign along with his homosexual promoting bishops and Cardinals. Last night Frank Walker said the bright priest Fr Orsi even said he should resign. He reported on Voris’ story that Wuerl has fled to Rome courtesy of Francis. Today he says CMtv is walking back on that “Breaking News”. Personally I do not care either way because I trust it is all in God’s Hands.

    Fr Orsi was on of the late Bishop McHugh’s favored Diocesan priests.After McHugh moved onto Rockville Ctr NY, Orsi lost his favored Chancery position. he traveled around asking prests in different organizations of note like Ecclesia Dei if they would take him on. He landed in Michigan with pizza man’s project of Ave Maria Law school and was most noted for his audio entitled “Boys Cherries”, and occasional articles on legal advice for homosexual clerics who were caught. Now he is in Ave Marialand Florida.
    http://www.bishop-accountability.org/news2008/11_12/2008_12_22_AveWatch_AveMarias.htm
    http://www.bishop-accountability.org/news2008/01_02/2008_01_13_AveWatch_TrialPreparations.htm

    Our Lady did not tell us to join the Revolution which ,I strongly believe was prophecy for today, She told us to pray Her Rosary daily , make the five first Saturdays and wear Her scapular. Lots of bloodthirsty clerics seem to have forgotten that as have the peasants. sure I would like to see the hx network gone and destroyed in the clergy. But who will sneak through the cracks in the smoke?

  51. Dear AlphonsusJr, hope you won’t mind, for your own good:
    Please refresh your memory regarding ‘The Seven Capital Sins’,
    It says, ‘to counteract anger, we need the grace of God to overcome anger and to practice self-possession at all times. We must often beg God to grant us calmness, tranquility and peace, and call upon Him to help us quickly in moments of temptation.’
    ‘Be sober and watch: because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, goeth about seeking whom he may devour……’
    (1 Peter 5:8,11)
    ‘Capitat omnia diabolus’ ‘I’ll be damned.’ God forbid!
    Keep the Faith! God love you!

  52. By your reply, it appears you do not understand the article.
    Try to see the forest for the trees Melanie.

  53. sweepoutthefilth is a verbally incontinent, vile gossiper, slanderer, and scandal-monger. She’s a plague on this site.

    “Only the person who becomes irate without reason, sins. Whoever becomes irate for a just reason is not guilty. Because, if ire were lacking, the science of God would not progress, judgments would not be sound, and crimes would not be repressed. Further, the person who does not become irate when he has cause to be, sins. For an unreasonable patience is the hotbed of many vices: it fosters negligence, and stimulates not only the wicked, but above all the good, to do wrong.”

    -St. John Chrysostom, Homily XI super Matheum, 1c, nt.7

    “Ire may be understood in two ways. In one way, as a simple movement of the will that inflicts punishment not through passion, but by virtue of a judgment of the reason: and in this case, without a doubt, lack of ire is a sin. This is how Chrysostom understands ire when he says: ‘Ire, when it has a cause, is not ire but judgment. For properly speaking, ire is a movement of passion. And when a man is irate with just cause, his ire does not derive from passion. Rather, it is an act of judgment, not of ire.” In another way, ire can be understood as a movement of the sensitive appetite agitated by passion with bodily excitation. This movement is a necessary sequel in man to the previous movement of his will, since the lower appetite naturally follows the movement of the higher appetite unless some obstacle prevents it. Hence the movement of ire in the sensitive appetite cannot be lacking altogether, unless the movement of the will is altogether lacking or weak. Consequently, the lack of the passion of ire is also a vice, as it is the lack of movement in the will to punish according to the judgment of reason.”

    -St. Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologiae, II, II, q. 158, art. 8.

  54. Actually I do have the facts ABS, I live in the same Diocese as you do referred Fr Gallagher’s story to a priest who is connected with lawyers who are helping him. You just have what the Bishop tells you. This wonderful priest concurred with the truth Fr Gallagher has told.

  55. No Q he is not because he is not Herve ,he is a person who was already banned here by the blog host.
    A Troll who attempts to destroy Louie’s credibility.

  56. Below Alphonse quotes St John Chrysostom correctly but he lacks all understanding of what the Saint states.
    Very sad Alphonse. Go back to arguing with your past nemesis Blunder who is still here !

  57. Correction, Alphonse ‘ silly post was posted above .Anyway ,they are uncivil, unCatholic and continually lacking in any intellectual grace.
    He is very transparent.
    ABS acts out in ire all the time. He tells readers on his blog how he receives his ashes on ash Wednesday and then rides down to Pal Beach Island so all the Jews can see him testifying for Christ.
    Alphonse , you and ABS have much in common in demonstrating your holy ire. You could ride shotgun and scream “Perfideous” out the passenger window!

  58. I don’t understand why those who are offended/annoyed, etc by certain posters don’t just ignore them and read/interact with the others.

  59. ABS you continue to believe Barbarito’s lies over the priest in this case.
    http://torontocatholicwitness.blogspot.com/2017/01/bombshell-catholic-priest-sues-diocese.html
    In his previous Diocese Barbarito gave an interview to a reporter in which he clearly stated a pederast priest’s name should never be printed in the paper.
    Keep believing his lies sir. He sure sounds like one of them to me.Furthermore the guilty priest here admitted he diddled with underage boys in India and his Bishop was well aware of it. Wasn’t it Barnarito’s responsibility to ask for the priest’s dossier from his previous Bishop?
    Of course it was! If Barbarito did do his due diligence ,he just did not care !

  60. Absolutely agree GSF. This site has just hit the bottom of the barrell – keep hoping it will get back to what it was. But not looking likely. Dont suppose we are drawing many to Tradition?Just another money spinning – I am going to save the Church – ‘apostolate’.
    Goodbye….

  61. Simply because certain posters are here to destroy any interest in Louie’s blog and at times they need to be called out for what they are.
    The trouble is that when they are identified they go off on a stupid rant of name calling “demon” etc . When they do, they out themselves for what they truly are.
    NOT CATHOLIC in the least.
    Totally ignoring them is not the answer. Identify and move on.
    Have you seen Mrs Engle screaming that Borgolio must resign?
    In Rite of Sodomy she identifies and moves on.
    No she is not here to sell her books either because one can find it free on the Internet.
    But I will tell you this, it is a great reference book to have on your shelf and go back to especially when you recognize the patterns of Ordinations and Consecrations ,The clerical HX Network reveals itself easily.

  64. 2Vermont,
    Your right and some just change their moniker.
    But they do offer the reader an exercise in right thinking and proper judgement.
    So, nothing lost , nothing gained ,response or not.
    Sort of like high school when some bully boys try to garner buddies and form a gang . Lack of real Faith and intellect is identifiable.
    For instance, did ABS read Pt 2 of Randy’s expose yet before he passed judgement? I doubt if he is a subscriber to Louie’s digital newsletter.

  66. With all due respect sweep, I do believe you’re sincere and have good intentions, but other than paying the bills, is this even Louie’s blog anymore?

  68. Absolutely and he does need a moderation tool. I would not feel the necessity to post at all then.

  69. Maybe you should be arrested for impersonating a mental health professional.
    I am not accusing Pius X of complicity in the plots against the Church either through masonry or homosexuality. Throughout the 19th century clerics became masons or they were masonic infiltrators into the Church. It was an acknowledged problem. Leo XIII wrote at least two encyiclicals on the problem of masonry. He knew of the danger of infiltration but I don’t believe there was a mechanism within the Church for ferreting out masons from the clergy.
    As for the “Catholic heads of state”, in this instance, I am referring to modern secular heads of state who happen to be Catholic and govern nations where 50% or more of the population is at least nominally Catholic.
    I am not calling for the murder of Francis. I am calling for the eviction of Francis from the papal throne. Big difference.

    Finally, who are you to judge my state of mind or opinions? Most of my post regarding Cardinal Merry del Val, Pius X, Cardinals Rampolla and Ferrata is based on historical verifiable fact. Yes, I’m speculating regarding the deaths of Wernz and Pius X. But the speculation is based on the reports of their deaths. With Cardinal Ferrata, it was his nephew, a famous American pianist, who wrote his own autobiography and mentioned the death of his uncle Cardinal Ferrata, of whom he was justly proud. His account is based on first hand testimony.

  70. I have not specifically communicated with Randy regarding Merry del Val. She is aware of my theory regarding Pope Pius X and Fr. Wernz. She would agree, the history of the Church in the early 20th century, needs to be closely reexamined. I knew at the time I did the research that Merry del Val was a critical figure. I have not changed my opinion.

  71. So what is the difference between the person who has homosexual tendencies and the person disposed to lying? None. There are Christians who either are, have been, or maybe homosexual. Just as there are the equivalent liars. There are many homosexuals who struggle daily to come to terms with their condition, pleading with God to help them live the Gospel and live lives of continence and abstinence. It is called carrying one’s cross. You could say the same with liars. Stop attacking homosexuals per se, and attack the sin. God’s kingdom is peopled with homosexuals and liars crying out to God for forgiveness. The world is peopled with far more liars than homosexuals.
    It is all very well to pontificate about what God created, but Adam and Eve sinned and all sorts of degradation entered the world. At that same point mercy entered the world. Every sinner struggles to conform to Logos. Logos forgives, even if you don’t.

  72. https://www.diocesepb.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=news.details&ArticleId=8590

    Sweepy admits he doesn’t know any person from Holy Name, but ABS knows more than one and they frankly say that Fr Gallagher is insane – and the ones who say that are liberal Catholics (Holy Name is a complete Novus Ordo mess).

    Father Gallagher has lied frequently and he had to publicly correct the lie that it was he who called the cops.

    He didn’t. The Boy’s Father called the cop.

    Father Gallagher lied that he contacted the Diocese. He didn’t and he made up the lie that Diocese told him they were gonna spirit that perv out of the country.

    It was Father Gallagher, not the Diocese, that invited the perv priest to minister at Holy Name. It was Father Gallagher who did no due diligence or contact the diocese prior to inviting the perv priest to minster there.

    Father Gallagher lied about being shut out of the church with the locks changed.

    Poor Father Gallagher is a proven liar but not likely culpable for his lies because he is insane.

    Sweepy, though, is culpable for continuing lying on behalf of a liar.

  73. Actually Isles, you’re right.
    Aside from a few posts by Benedict Carter and Louie’s digital newsletter, I’ve learned nothing new here except how very confused , unable to think and read critically and follow up on source documents the laity really are.
    Have a party Alphonse and Blunder the comments section is all yours now!
    I’m out a here.
    Pray the Rosary and Trust in God because no matter how bad it will get HE IS in control and loves souls very much.

  74. He tells readers on his blog how he receives his ashes on ash Wednesday and then rides down to Palm Beach Island so all the Jews can see him testifying for Christ.

    Can you be anymore clueless? Obviously, that was a joke. ABS did not really do that.

    ABS is a subscriber to the digital edition of The Inquisitor

  75. ABS goes to the Lil’ Licit Liturgy and has his Pastor paint a large and dark cross on his forehead and then he travels down to Palm Beach Island where he repeatedly circles the island looking for those who might be a member of the Tribe that killed Our Lord and Saviour and when he spots them ABS drives by them slowly, very slowly, and glares at the Messias-Deniers with the expression and Cross on his forehead clearly communicating a why-did-you-do-it accusation.

    This is the post that sweepy takes seriously and thinks BS really did what he jokingly said he did

  77. Randy Engel’s article above greatly lacks the context that really does make the situation of Archbishop Neinstedt a truly “strange case”. The Bishop arrived in the St. Paul chancery inheriting a mess of an archdiocese, and immediately began cleaning moral house. He was soon at war with the homosexual parishes, and the rainbow coalition was out to get him. The Twin Cities press through in their full weight against him, especially after the Bishop send out DVDs to all of Minnesota encouraging the passage of the pro-marriage constitutional amendment. In the Twin Cities, the regional attack on Bishop Neinstedt could only be compared with what is now seen on the national level against President Trump.

    Earlier, in the New Ulm diocese also, Bishop Neinstedt cleaned up a liberal mess left by the prior bishop (who had, oddly, managed to make the most rural diocese in the country also the most liberal). Bishop Neinstedt was firm on moral teaching, and with the severity to impose liturgical rubrics. He was the best of the JPII-lineage Novus Ordo, a man wanting to carry out what he saw as the will of the Pope, and firm enough to carry through on it. As one diocesan priest put it, he began making the formerly loose officials at the chancery “walk on egg shells”.

    I have no intention of investigating the whole thing from top to bottom, but would not be entirely surprised if the court documents found by Randy Engel were largely fictions; faked news by a good ol’ boys network willing to milk the diocesan golden cow, playing along with a legislature willing to specially extend the statute of limitations upon those long-dead, on behalf of their lawyer buddies.

  79. “Out a here”? If only that were true.

    Your mania will bring you back to continue your slander. It’s a pathology. You need this outlet for your viciousness. You constantly accuse people like me of being Blunder, trying to “discredit” this blog, being liars, being paid agents of evil, even to the point of claiming to live in their dioceses and have first-hand knowledge of situations where you’ve been caught spreading false rumors, as is the case with ABS. Reality is much simpler. Many people have just had enough of your gossip. And you do more than anyone to “discredit” this blog with your nonsense.

    At some point perhaps you will realize how offensive you are and how evil what you’re doing is. Good riddance if you actually stay away. But I know you lack the self-control to do stick to it.

  80. The topics on this blog authored by Louie and his guests are of a very serious nature and should be very important to the Catholic Faithful who seek Truth. It is a pity that some who comment here reduce the seriousness to a shouting match and adolescent bullying. Louie, who has given many warnings about this, is much too patient. Those who do not like certain commentors should just skip those comments and move on. Sounds like the more adult approach. Think about it. 2Vermont said it best.

  81. The pious demoness sweepoutthefilth is a verbally incontinent vandal. She vandalizes every comment section now such that 30-70% of the comments are her wild speculations, vile calumnies and detractions, petty gossip, and advertisements of her connections to everyone from top to bottom. I’m tired of wading through all her nonsense and filth.

    It’s not a matter of just skipping her comments. One can no more do this than one can just skip the vandalism on tattooed skin or the graffiti on defaced buildings.

    Probably the better solution is to skip the comments section entirely. But I’d rather not have to do that, as sometimes there are excellent comments by others.

  82. Just a reply to “In caritas” regarding the works of James Larson:

    It is certainly true that Larson has some issues. No single layman holds the entire solution to the Church’s current crisis, though Romano Amerio probably comes the closest (and certainly deserves canonization far more than, say, Teresa of Kolkata) I do not claim that he is perfect, only that he has a far saner – and more far-reaching – programme for the restoration of all things in Christ than simply “roll back the clock to 1957”.

    That said, I assume from your comment that you are a sedevacantist (or some variation thereof). There are many good arguments against that position besides Larson’s somewhat controverted historical analysis.

  83. The return to Tradition will not come through blogs and rumour mills, no matter how much those tickle our intellectual curiosity. Quoth our Lord: “This kind can only be cast out by prayer and fasting”.

  84. Even so, this is a heavy allegation to make against someone (del Val) who was known for his orthodoxy, was a staunch opponent of the Zionist heresy, and whose “Litany of Humility” is still quoted even by Sedevacantists in opposition to the worldly false humility of “A Man of His Word” Francis. Besides, del Val is long gone and in no position to defend himself, unlike the sodomite cretins McCarrick, Martin, etc. I would be prudent about casually destroying his reputation simply to win an online argument.

  85. Since the day God created us “male and female” and told us to go forth and multiply, not go backwards and sodomize, you moral cretin.

    Go post on Mark Shea’s blog, he and his homoheretic atheist friends would be more your speed.

  86. I agree. The flip side of the fact that “liberal” (=heretic) clergy are often sodomites is that they (and their media friends) will often seek to smear anyone “traditional” (=orthodox Catholic) as “gay” or a “pedo” to bring them down. They even tried it with the Franciscan Friars of the Immaculate, and the charges were never proven.

  87. That’s a boatload of presumption directed at my person there, Melanie. You might consider avoiding pigeon-hole styled calumny while supposedly posting comments to written articles.

  88. I am aware of del Val’s litany, didn’t know of his anti-zionism, and am aware of his orthodoxy. The actions and motives of historical figures are examined every day of the week – but multiple corroborated references should be brought to bear in making final assumptions. In the early 20th century even the hint of homosexual orientation could damn a man and be used to blackmail him. Del Val, if he had the orientation, may not have acted on it, but may have admitted it in confession. If the confessor was an infiltrated mason then del Val could be blackmailed right in confession. He would have been blackmailed to keep silence regarding the death of Pius X. The Zionists, bankers, masons and what became the new world order, badly wanted WWI, for profit and plunder. Pope St. Pius X was desperately trying to stop that war – and get ahold of Emperor Franz Joseph, to whom he owed his papacy – when he and the German Fr. Wernz were murdered. WWI destroyed the Ausro-Hungarian empire and the Catholic order that went with it.

  89. Unfortunately, the “excellent comments by others” are hidden under a pile of immature nonsense.

  90. I agree to a point. We all need to stop judging others and start judging ourselves if we are Christian. If someone is homosexual and crying out to God, no doubt about it, you are correct. But when one chooses to base their entire being and identity as sin, and make God conform to them, then we have a problem.

    When you choose to identify your whole being as nothing more than an idea or a construct, like a political belief, and not as a child of God, then there will always exist a direct opposite idea, or lifestyle, that cannot coexist ever. And you can be argued out of existence.

  91. Sedevacantism is just another non-Catholic sect rooted in error and disobedience, and the fruits of such were on full display in the 80’s (“By their fruits you will know them”). The entity in Rome is not the Church, and no one seems to want to get to the root of the situation in the Vatican but would rather hold to their fallible, human arguments and opinions while going in circles and never attaining right answers or the Truth of the matter.

    St. Vincent Ferrer:
    ‘ Those in the 3rd category whom he will try to seduce are learned folk such as masters and doctors of civil and canon law who can argue and grasp the proof of things. Against these antichrist will weave spells of enchantments, bringing out the most subtle arguments, the most seductive reasoning, to render these learned men tongue-tied and incapable of answering. It is not difficult to understand how this is done since the demon already holds their souls in the chains of sin, for the greater their knowledge the more heavy burdened will be their consciences if they do not live up to it. If he can hold their souls on chains it is easy for him to bind a morsel of flesh like the tongue so that they cannot speak except when and what he chooses. The remedy for this state of bondage is faith, which follows simple obedience and not argument or reasoning. Argument may be good for the strengthening of intelligence but it is not the true foundation of faith. Those whose faith rests on reason will lose it when they hear the specious reasoning of antichrist.

    Those on the contrary who rely on a firm belief founded on obedience will reply ‘away with your arguments! Such reasonings are not the grounds of my faith.’

  93. A Simple Beggar. The enitity in Rome is not the Church yet the See of Peter is not vacant. Please tell us how that is possible.

  94. Tom: Of course the See of Peter is vacant. We are in the end times – the Great Apostasy – and the public Sacrifice has long ceased just as it was foretold.

  95. A Simple Beggar: “Tom: Of course the See of Peter is vacant. We are in the end times – the Great Apostasy.”

    TomA, please ask him the obvious follow up question so I don’t have to.

  97. mary_podlesak said: “blackmailed right in confession”

    It would seem to me that the unrepentant could be blackmailed, yes, but if someone is repenting of a sin, how can they be blackmailed?

    On another note, this might help you make your case: I think we have to remember the story of Jesus about the cockle being planted in the Church by his enemies. Cockle is a grass weed that you cannot distinguish from wheat by the leaf size shape or texture, nor by the stem, size shape or texture. Thus you don’t know if you have wheat, or cockle till it heads out (bears fruit). With that in mind, St. Pius X, pope Pius XII, and the likes, would have been guilty of rash suspicion not to trust many of those who turned out to be weeds, and never should have been trusted. That’s just the nature of the deception employed by Christ’s enemy. The modernists (communists, freemason, sodemites) are cockle, they were planted in the Church.

  99. You called sedevacantism a “non-Catholic sect” while holding to the position the See is vacant. Seems odd.

  104. TomA & A Simple Beggar, What did the Church teach? My degrees are not in any way related to Theology so I am not ashamed to be looking around like an idiot saying, “Wait, is the Pope supposed to be anti-Christian? Can we have a fake pope? Can we have no pope? Can we have Priests with no Pope? Can we have Bishops with no Pope? Can we have Sacraments with no Pope? Is the Holy Eucharist really supposed to cease completely at the end? How long is the end? If it’s not 3 1/2 years is it 3 1/2 thousand years?” I’m reading the Antichrist by Miceli and he says that everyone besides himself who ever wrote about eschatology was a moron and didn’t know what the heck they were talking about. This is my second time through this book and I don’t recall getting much out of it the first time. A Simple Beggar, you told me a while ago that you could explain how the Sacrifice would fail for multiple generations when the Bible indicates a short period, but you didn’t. St. Alphonsus Ligouri’s homilies are all directed to Catholics with a Church, with Priests. If this is all foretold in Scripture, I need to read that because I never knew. I’d appreciate if someone can direct me to the Church teaching on this. TomA, sedes look at R&R’s like they’re insane for believing Jorge is Pope and they are right. BUT R&R’s look at sedes like they’re insane because they say, just come to my sede Priest and R&R’s say does your sede Priest have a unicorn because there’s no such thing and they’re right too. Oh and NO say just follow the Pope and sedes and R&R’s look at them like they’re insane because the Pope is completely demonic leading us all to Hell and they are right too. So didn’t the Apostles fail to inform us of something if EVERYONE is just looking at each other like we’re ALL insane and we are all insane. If this is the end and the Most Holy Sacrifice of the Mass ceases and we are left w/just the Rosary, I am totally FINE w/that. I deserve nothing more, but I’d REALLY like to read where the Church told us this would happen. That’s all, I’d like to see it and say okay, well there you go. Isn’t that reasonable?

  105. A Simple Beggar posted:
    “St. Vincent Ferrer:
    ‘ Those in the 3rd category whom he will try to seduce are learned folk such as masters and doctors of civil and canon law who can argue and grasp the proof of things. Against these antichrist will weave spells of enchantments, bringing out the most subtle arguments, the most seductive reasoning, to render these learned men tongue-tied and incapable of answering. It is not difficult to understand how this is done since the demon already holds their souls in the chains of sin, for the greater their knowledge the more heavy burdened will be their consciences if they do not live up to it. If he can hold their souls on chains it is easy for him to bind a morsel of flesh like the tongue so that they cannot speak except when and what he chooses. The remedy for this state of bondage is faith, which follows simple obedience and not argument or reasoning. Argument may be good for the strengthening of intelligence but it is not the true foundation of faith. Those whose faith rests on reason will lose it when they hear the specious reasoning of antichrist.
    Those on the contrary who rely on a firm belief founded on obedience will reply ‘away with your arguments! Such reasonings are not the grounds of my faith.’ ”

    The liberal Catholics have totally abandon reason, can they be saved by a faith that’s not in line with Catholic doctrine, something that reason is needed to accomplish? Nope.

    The conservative Catholics have reason, but it’s faulty because they have not been taught the pre-conciliar doctrine, so their unable to determine that Vatican II and the post conciliar popes are heretical. They have also not been taught that Catholics have a right to withdraw obedience from prelates who fail to condemn error or teach heresy. Will their faith save them as their faulty reason makes them the enablers of the modernists who are the enemies of Christ?

    The diocesan traditional Catholics not wanting to exercise their right to withdraw obedience to heretical prelates, go about saying that if a person was baptized by a protestant, confirmed by a protestant, and married by a protestant, their marriage is valid. But if a person was baptized by the SSPX, confirmed by the SSPX, and then married by the SSPX, they need to have their marriage blessed by a heretic or at least by a FSSP priest for it to be valid! Sadly, the liberals in the SSPX have now joined them in engaging in interpretations of canon law that seem at odds with each other. By trying to use canon law against Archbishop Lefebvre, they are now tongue tied, and have not lived up to being responsible. For some here, a simple obedience to Archbishop Lefebvre would have served them well.

    Sedevacantists, believe, based on some real evidence that pope John Paul II and pope Benedict XVI have lost jurisdiction do to heresy. Some who agree with Archbishop Lefebvre, but are on their own because of the liberalism in the SSPX, believe there is some evidence based on absentmindedness, that pope John Paul II and pope Benedict XVI are only material heretics and had jurisdiction (and for some still has jurisdiction (pope Benedict XVI)). Sedevacantists have a faith that the infallible pope and the infallible Church will some how be preserved by God even though the conciliar/post-conciliar popes lost jurisdiction. Some who agree with Archbishop Lefebvre, but are on their own because of the liberalism in the SSPX, have a faith that says an 80 something year old self proclaimed progressivist, who has a record of denying Catholic dogma to save his own butt, who has worshiped in synogauges and mosques, and has made occult hand signs, is going to repent, flee Rome, end up in Fatima to preserve the infallible pope and the infallible Church. Nothing reasonable about that, it’s an act of faith derived from an act of reason that says approved private revelation will not be a tail that wags the dog of Catholic theology!

    Note that some here have simple obedience to heretics and some have a simple obedience to what the Church teaches authoritively as well as what the Church has always taught!

  106. Tom: Come on you’re smarter than that. Sedevacantism is a sect which has its own bishops and priests which possess no jurisdiction from any true Pope.

    “Indeed, Holy Writ attests that the keys of the Kingdom of Heaven were given to Peter alone, and that the power of binding and loosening was granted to the Apostles and to Peter; but there is nothing to show that the Apostles received supreme power without Peter, and against Peter. Such power they certainly did not receive from Jesus Christ. Wherefore, in the decree of the Vatican Council as to the nature and authority of the primacy of the Roman Pontiff, no newly conceived opinion is set forth, but the venerable and constant belief of every age (Sess. iv., cap. 3).”

    Melanie: Did you happen to read the document I left for you months ago called “The True Church”? If not, I can give it to you again. There are 2 books I can recommend for you: The Present Crisis of the Holy See by Cardinal Manning (wherein he states that an extended interregnum in the Church is certainly quite possible), and The Apocolypse of St John by Fr. E. Sylvester Berry.

    As for the timeframe of the cessation of the (public) Sacrifice, I don’t believe we should necessarily take literally the 3 1/2 years, as to God one day is as a thousand years and vice versa, for example. Some things are for now simply a mystery and we won’t have all of the answers.

    I can’t stress enough – from experience -the inportance of asking God for guidance in this matter, and definitely St. Joseph. Until we empty ourselves and stop trying to figure it out on our own, we go in circles and remain in confusion. We must surrender. Nescivi.

  109. Tom: That may in essence be true, but there is an official sect which calls itself Sedevacantist and which has its own bishops, priests, and sacraments in which not all those who believe the See to be vacant partake.

    As the actual Church taught that the Faith comes before Sacraments. The faithful must know from whence their pastors come, as there are thieves and robbers which have entered through another way.

    First things first. In these times: obedience. We must start by recognizing where the Church is NOT. We can no more receive Sacraments from the Sedevacantist sect than we can from the Orthodox. The Four Marks is not some optional guideline, it is THE guideline.

  110. Dear Professor Q,

    A response to yours’. You had this to say:

    “That said, I assume from your comment that you are a sedevacantist (or some variation thereof). There are many good arguments against that position besides Larson’s somewhat controverted historical analysis.”

    Larson is minimally an heretic and a schismatic. You will know them by their fruits. He is thus to be avoided, as an heretic and schismatic, as the One True Church has always taught, period and end. You, in error, opine: “there are many good arguments against that position….”. It all boils down to one simple question, Professor Q, and that question is this: Do you freely assent to the council called, “Vatican II”, as a Council of the One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church? Yes or no? If yes, then you are an apostate, as it simply cannot be the One True Church, as it proclaims as, “Solemnly Promulgated”, by “Pope Paul VI” on November 21, 1964, in “Lumen Gentium” paragraph 16, the tacit denial of the Credo, thus the Blessed Triune nature of Almighty God, and thus the divinity of Jesus the Christ. If you say no, then you acknowledge that the Vicar of Christ left the face of the earth with the death of Pope Pius XII, as the false popes from so called “John XXII” through “Francis” all freely assent to the “Vatican Council II” as being a Council of the Holy Catholic Church, and as thus were/are all in apostasy. Since they all demonstrate a loss of personal faith, if they ever had it, as the Vatican Council taught in its 4th Session, 1870, July, they simply cannot be true Popes and as taught by Pope Paul IV in “Cum Ex Apostolatus Officio” in 1559. There are NO arguments against reality as Truth, Professor Q. I pray this helps, as our very salvation depends on adhering to the Truth as taught by true Pontiffs, guarding the One True Faith, NEVER to teach ANYTHING new, each protected by the charism of infallibility. In caritas.

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